iRobot unveils the Roomba Duo

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The original robot vacuum company showed off a concept robot at the IFA tech show in Berlin today. The Roomba Duo combines a heavy-duty floor-washing machine with a smaller, slimmer Roomba. The two floor cleaners can move around your home together, with the main unit mopping and sweeping larger floor areas and the smaller unit lowering mechanically when needed to clean tighter spaces, such as under tables or in corners.

The Roomba Duo is a floor washer that carries a smaller robot vacuum with it.

The Roomba Plus 757 lives on top.

You cansee part of the floor washing mechanism here, iRobot didn’t show the underside of the robot.

The robot’s navigation systems are at the top, giving it a sort of face.

The Duo is also an autonomous mobile dock, with clean and dirty water tanks and a dust bag on board, and it uses lidar and camera-based...

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